A man has been jailed for one year for dousing his wife and her children in petrol, after setting alight petrol he had spread inside their house
File photo Image: Shutterstock File photo Image: Shutterstock A MAN, WHO doused petrol on his wife and her two children, after setting light to petrol he had spread in their home, has been jailed for a year by the Court of Appeal.
He had pleaded guilty to making a threat to damage property, which carries a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison. He had also admitted breaching a barring order. Barrister Thomas Rice explained that the accused had moved out of the house but into an adjoining flat after receiving the barring order. A door between the family home and this flat was barred.
“The decision to impose a wholly suspended sentence was unjustified in this case as it was not founded on a sound evidential basis,” he argued. “A further significant aggravating feature was that the respondent repeatedly breached a barring order. “It is respectfully submitted the learned sentencing judge kept a balance between the particular circumstances of the offending and the relevant personal circumstances of the respondent,” he said. “It is submitted that the sentences as imposed were adequate and justifiable and fall within the permissible range.”
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